Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , as they moved towards their first coupling , ‘ it was as if the whole of myself , body and spirit , even parts of me I never knew existed , came alive at his touch ’ ? |
| 2 | They reported in-depth information about his sex life that they gleaned from his first and current wives , their mothers , neighbours and any other informant . |
| 3 | BANGOR 'S heroic team flew out of Cyprus today reflecting on how close they came to their first win in European competition . |
| 4 | NEW pupils at a dog obedience class were all shapes and sizes when they arrived for their first lesson yesterday . |
| 5 | Probably most of those surviving were reasonably active , as they would die rather quickly when they succumbed to their first serious illness at this stage of life . |
| 6 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 7 | But I was pleased that the World Bank said we had done as much in our first year as they did in their first 10 . ’ |
| 8 | On the other side , revolutionary parties may come to accept more of the existing social institutions than they did in their first enthusiastic advocacy of a brave new world . |
| 9 | Is not it time for the Government to compensate the people whom they damaged in their first Tory recession ? |
| 10 | Kildare , who as they smiled on their first born son in 1725 decided to christen him Arthur , ( 2 ) ( 1725–1803 ) after his godfather and benefactor Archbishop Arthur Price of Cashel . |
| 11 | They competed in their first World Championship race at Monaco but had to wait until Froilan Gonzalez ( Arg ) triumphed in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone a year later for their first World Championship success . |